For Those Who Like Genealogy

Updated January 11, 2024
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My European family : the first 54,000 years
Bojs, Karin
Paper Book
The story of Europe and its people, told through its genetic legacy.'An extraordinary book ... part travel narrative, part family history, part scientific study.' - Financial TimesKarin Bojs grew up in a small, broken family. At her mother's funeral she felt this more keenly than ever....
The Black Calhouns : from Civil War to civil rights with one African American family
Buckley, Gail Lumet
Paper Book
In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley--daughter of actress Lena Horne--delves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African-American family from Civil War to Civil Rights. Beginning with her great-great grandfather Moses Calhoun, a...
Ancestor trouble : a reckoning and a reconciliation
Newton, Maud
Audiobook
An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional Southern family--and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves. "A roadmap for all of us who long to understand, at the deepest level, where we come from."--Dani...
On Gold Mountain
See, Lisa.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of The Island of Sea Women, here is the true story of the one-hundred-year-odyssey of the author's Chinese-American family, combining years of research with "fascinating family anecdotes, imaginative details, and the historical details of immigrant life" (Amy...
Inheritance : a memoir of genealogy, paternity, and love
Shapiro, Dani
Paper Book
An Instant NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A LOS ANGELES TIMES, BOSTON GLOBE, WALL STREET JOURNAL, and NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR according to Elle, Real Simple, and Kirkus Reviews
Futureface : a family mystery, an epic quest, and the secret to belonging
Wagner, Alex
Ebook
From the host of MSNBC's Alex Wagner Tonight, "a rich and revealing memoir" (The New York Times) about her travels around the globe to solve the mystery of her ancestry, confronting the question at the heart of the American experience of immigration, race, and...
Benjamin Banneker and us : eleven generations of an American family
Webster, Rachel J.
Paper Book
A family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the past into urgent conversation with the present. In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey Washington,...

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